Morocco: Over 250 migrants crossing from Morocco aboard 24 vessels were rescued on Friday off the coast of Spain. (AFP)

Tunisia: The United States increased aid to Tunisia’s military and development sectors by 30 percent between 2016 and 2017, to 205.4 million U.S. dollars. (Xinhua)

Zimbabwe: Several thousand people are in the streets of the capital, Harare, to demand longtime President Mugabe’s exit following a military intervention. (AP)

AMERICAS

Argentina: President Macri said his government is committed to employ all resources necessary to find a missing Navy submarine with 44 crew members. (EFE)

Venezuela: Ousted Caracas mayor Antonio Ledezma, a key opponent of President Nicolas Maduro, traveled to Madrid after escaping house arrest in the capital. (AFP)

Venezuela: President Nicolas Maduro offered to help U.S. President Donald Trump in fighting the drug trade. (Reuters)

ASIA

Afghanistan: Up to 23 militants were killed and 25 others wounded during the military operations over the past 24 hours, the defense ministry said. (Xinhua)

North Korea: A special envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping met with the closest aide of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, amid an ongoing pause in Pyongyang’s saber-rattling. (Xinhua)

Pakistan: Authorities issued a final warning to members of an Islamist party blocking a main road into the capital Islamabad, raising fears of a violent clash. (Reuters)

Sri Lanka: Police arrested 19 people after a clash between majority Buddhist and minority Muslim communities in which four people were injured. (Reuters)

EUROPE

France: Emmanuel Macron’s Republic on the Move (LREM) party is likely to name Christophe Castanera its new leader. (AFP)

Poland: The U.S. State Department approved a possible $10.5 billion sale of Raytheon Co’s Patriot missile defense system to Poland. (Reuters)

Turkey: The U.S. ambassador to NATO stopped short of saying that that the United States will impose sanctions on Turkey if it goes through with its purchase of the Russian S-400 missile system. (Defense News)

Turkey: NATO’s secretary general has apologized to Ankara over military exercises in Norway during which Turkey’s founding leader, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, and its president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, were reportedly depicted as “enemies”. (AP)

MIDDLE EAST

Egypt: The government opened the Rafah crossing point to Gaza for three days on a humanitarian basis for the first time. (AP)

Palestine: The Palestinian foreign minister says the Authority will not give in to “extortion” after a U.S. threat to close their diplomatic mission in Washington. (AP)